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by seppin 7y ago
It's almost as if these specific details are wrong but the greater trend is happening, so why fixate on it?
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by seppin 7y ago
No this was a PR stunt that apparently really worked well.
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by seppin 7y ago
Writing off the surrender of mainlanders of all their rights to "effective propaganda" is undercutting the very real sense of grievance and fear/hatred of foreigners already present.
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by seppin 7y ago
Singapore doesn't operate consideration camps or have political prisoners, they just don't allow chewing gum.
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by seppin 7y ago
The millions in Xinjiang would like a word. Why do you spend your free time defending a brutal autocracy on the internet?
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by seppin 7y ago
So for a citizen in California or Texas, who will never get or see this personal treatment, how is this helpful?
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by seppin 7y ago
> The Chinese government has its bad and its good, but so far it's doing OK Are people really just ok with concentration camps in 2019?
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by seppin 7y ago
How many years have you spent in jail as a political prisoner?
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by seppin 7y ago
> if all the HK youth got cushy finance jobs like the previous generation, these protests would have never happened You are assuming HKers would sell their freedom to a tyrprican government in exchange for GDP growth the way mainland Chi
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by seppin 7y ago
Burning man? /s
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by seppin 7y ago
> It makes some feel attacked and reaffirms what they were taught in China: The West is biased and hostile. It's easier when you want to believe something, to believe it. No matter what the source is.
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by seppin 7y ago
They are the biggest problem in terms of foreign interference. I don't think a Russian national can hang out in rural Organ and mess with paper ballots without being noticed.
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by seppin 7y ago
> I’ve recently switched from asking people, “where do you work” to “what do you fill your time with each day?” Amazing how perfectly SV says and does the same thing. I literally overhead the exact statement in a cafe yesterday. This is
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by seppin 7y ago
> They didn’t have a democracy prior to this protest (eligible HK SAR administrators were picked by Beijing). They also didn’t have a democracy during British rule (HKers could not vote). Because they didn't have a full democracy be
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by seppin 7y ago
> So what's this nuance you're referring to? You spent 4 paragraphs talking about how nuanced the situation is, yet never provided any examples. I thought I was going crazy too. Repeating "people just don't get it&quo
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by seppin 7y ago
If the US system was more democratic, not less, it would have avoided the current regime. (no electoral college)
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by seppin 7y ago
> Plato has been arguing that if you don't select your surgeon or carpenter based on that person's popularity in making public promises, why do you do so for statecraft? Politicians are elected by their promises, reelected by t
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by seppin 7y ago
It's still small and affluent, and therefore not a good place to make an x to y comparison.
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by seppin 7y ago
Between this, and mainland Chinese protesting while living/studying abroad whereas they wouldn't have the right to do so at home, the irony is palpable.
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by seppin 7y ago
His loyalty is to his company. Why would you expect anything else?
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by seppin 7y ago
Maybe Twitter's TOS was flawed from the start and shouldn't the bar for judgement now?
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by seppin 7y ago
> Basically what they sad is that western culture in Hong Kong clashes with the chinese culture. Funny that authoritarianism, corruption, etc. is being excused as "Chinese cultural differences". This stuff ain't new, folks
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by seppin 7y ago
No one is talking about politics, this is about two people unable to resolve a conflict.
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by seppin 7y ago
Considering the constant attacks and theft over the last 50 years, wars have been fought over less.
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by seppin 7y ago
It annoys me more that Trump gets credit for "standing up to China" where is is bumbling into a poorly executed trade war that will disappear when his daughter gets more under the table trademark deals for her purses.
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by seppin 7y ago
> To be fair, most of innovation in America also comes from the public sector not the private one What does that have to do with what OP is talking about?
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by seppin 7y ago
> Because there's zero evidence for any of it. There's all the evidence in the world if you want to see it. I you don't, there is none.
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by seppin 7y ago
Why don't we try it first?
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by seppin 7y ago
It's not.
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by seppin 7y ago
What about MORE equality of outcome. How is the attempt itself equal to "mass death"?

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